Inspiration

We were inspired to solve the problem that you can't type as fast as you think and even if you do type fast, it is hard to revisit your thought processes as they occurred.

What it does

Think Freely allows you to go back in time and visually see exactly what you were thinking while you were writing. No longer will you be confused by what you meant when you wrote that sentence 3 paragraphs ago.

How we built it

Think Freely was built using node.js and custom data visualizations on top of Google Cloud Natural Language API and Google Cloud Speech API. We prototyped a Angular 4 application and a AngularJS application because there is a full stack project generator that allowed us to get server side code running much faster and begin rapid building. However, we ended up moving to a pure node.js frontend using some express and jade.

Challenges we ran into

Nobody had experience integrating multiple pieces of dynamic JS with a frontend application, so we spent a lot of our time struggling with this

We had to develop a unique data structure for storing and accessing English language sentence relationships and dependencies

We had to develop our own text editor to allow precise manipulation of individual words

We had to develop our own node based data visualization that allows for user interaction and future version control intergration

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are able to track the thoughts of a writer as they write and allow them to revisit their past thought process

What we learned

We learned a lot about English syntactical structure

We learned how to build efficient and specialized data structures for NLP

What's next for Think Freely

Ability to share a specific Think Freely doc

Ability to upload documents for analysis

Move to a different front end platform for better control over visual design aspects

Utilize our ability to detect specific pieces of Art/Music/People to display images of said Art/Music/People

ML to better hone the visualizations and processing of text for a specific profile